Equity and Belonging

Equity Club strives to provide students with a safe and educational space to discuss inequities surrounding gender, race, sexuality, and more. We seek to create a more inclusive Derryfield community by fostering an increasingly welcoming and diverse culture within our space. We hold a safe, non-judgmental space where students can come to discuss social inequities in our lives and in the greater community. We strive to learn about things we can do in our everyday lives to fight for social justice, and we will work throughout the year to design and host our annual Equity conference.

In Model UN, students step into the roles of ambassadors from UN member states to prepare and draft resolutions on the organization’s vast agenda. Student delegates in Model UN prepare draft resolutions, plot strategies, negotiate with supporters and adversaries, resolve conflicts, and follow the UN’s rules of procedure – all in the interest of mobilizing international cooperation to resolve problems that affect countries all over the world.

At the Derryfield chapter of Paper Airplanes, we seek to form meaningful relationships with those around the globe that we otherwise might not have had the opportunity to connect with. Our club fosters a deep cultural appreciation while providing stable educational opportunities to conflict-affected high school students, and our work helps to expand the future opportunities of our students by providing them with a strong foundation in the English language.

We Deliver Periods (WPD) aims to educate the Derryfield community about the severity of the issue of period poverty in homeless women, and to attempt to combat these issues locally in the Manchester community. We want to keep this topic de-stigmatized and help people who have less access to these products in the greater area.